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Each year to Langley Field, Va. go some 300 of aviation's biggest wigs for the annual engineering conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Each year they see what new and wondrous phenomena the world's leading aeronautical laboratory has evoked in the twelvemonth past...
...ounces-a cocktail glass full-of orange juice. He distributed the rest, together with fruit, nuts and candy that had been sent him, to the Faithful. There followed Hindu prayers, readings from the Koran. A soloist sang St. Gandhi's favorite Christian hymn: "When I survey the wondrous Cross...
...There is a serious hiatus in the democratic theory of government when it is applied to a teeming modern city, without the increasingly popular device of reserving administrative power to a non-partisan expert. With the exception of a few false dawns in American public life, such as the wondrous Tom Johnson or the velvet dominance of Seth Low, our cities have laboured under distressing burdens of incompetence. But Chicago also had her interlude. To a Bohemian immigrant must go the glory of a real resuscitation, however temporary, of her moribund civic pride...
...Pocahontas (now a semi-prisoner in Jamestown) fell in love and were allowed to marry, since that would give the settlement a permanent hostage against Powhatan. After several backbreaking, productive years, Rolfe had made enough profit to go to England for a vacation. There at last Pocahontas saw the wondrous sights John Smith had told her of; and there she saw again John Smith, a middleaged, broken failure. Spoiled for her native life, she dreaded going back to Virginia. But civilization and London fogs had given her a cough that saved her: as the ship moved slowly down the Thames...
Despite these culminations of the great pipe dreams of 1929 and early 1930, last week there was by no means the same interest in pipelines. The public seemed inclined to await results before it increases its stakes in the industry. And no more was heard about such wondrous projects as a pipeline to carry grain, another to transport pulverized coal, a third to gush milk into big cities...